z66 DAVENPORT ICADEWU OI NATURAL SCIENCES. 



Expendituri s. 



Amount paid Curator $451 66 



janitor 60 00 



Fuel 50 25 



Gas 24 75 



Water 10 00 



Express and freight 40 04 



Postage, supplies, and incidentals 86 36 



Prof. Starr's lecture 10 75 



Subscription to "Science" 5 00 



( )ld note, taken up 250 OO 



Old bills and accounts paid, per vouchers 398 09 



Paid on new note 200 00 



Balance on hand 7 46 — $1,606 96 



ENDOWMENT FUND. 



Loaned on Mortgage, at eight per cent $1,000 00 



Deposit in Scott County Savings Bank at five per cent.. . 101 77 — $1,191 77 



SPEC IAL MOUND FUND. 



Deposit in Scott Count v Savings Bank $11 00 



^ PRESENT INDEBTEDNESS. 



Note to Mrs. Newcomb, at eight per cent $3-o 00 



Note to Davenport National Bank, at seven per cent 450 00 



Balance due Curator 48 34 



Unpaid bills 10 00 — $828 34 



Thus it will be seen that the balance of accruing interest i- $33.00 per annum 

 in favor of the Academy. 



Probable collectible dues, $36.00. 



The total current expenses for 1887 were $795.15. 



Nicholas Kuhnen, Treasurer. 



CURATOR'S REPORT. 



In the Museum department, the accessions during the past year 

 comprise the following: About three hundred vessels of ancient 

 mound pottery; two hundred flint and stone implements; eleven 

 human crania, from mounds; one carved stone Indian pipe; two 

 hundred and thirty-five old-time relics from New England ; an old 

 electrical machine; twenty-five species of fossils; several hundred 

 species of recent shells. 



No additional cabinet cases have been supplied, and the need of 

 them is extremely pressing. By the addition of four cases of the usual 

 form, the alcove arrangement of the west room of the basement could 

 be completed, and the whole room made available as a part of the 

 museum ; and some reasonable hope is entertained that this will soon 

 be done. 



The collection of recent shells, which has been very largely increased 

 by the labors of Mr. Harry A. Pilsbry, has been rearranged, and ex- 

 tended to occupy two additional cases, and a catalogue of them nearly 

 completed — about twenty-five hundred species. 



A considerable number of the local species of fishes and reptiles has 

 been collected and preserved, and during the ensuing year it is be- 



